According to Gartner's 2010 Hype Cycle Report, cloud computing has reached the peak of its hype cycle. This supposedly means that these technologies are heading toward the mainstream, but first is a period of disillusionment for those whose experience didn't match up with their expectations created...

"Ubuntu Unleashed 2011 Edition presents advanced coverage of the popular Ubuntu distribution of Linux. Windows users, Mac users, and Linux enthusiasts have been increasingly turning to Ubuntu for a user-friendly and easy-to-use Linux distribution that remains useful to power users." To win this...

For an introduction to next-generation web technologies, Enterprise Web 2.0 Fundamentals is a great place to start. Learn how to leverage cloud computing and user-generated content along with business and technical best practices. To win this, simply answer one of the questions listed below and...

The enterprise is starting to catch on: Data growth is threatening to get out of control unless changes start being made now. Marty Poniatowski's Foundation of Green IT is a great guide to consolidation, virtualization, efficiency and ROI in the data center. With three comprehensive,...

This week, you get your pick of our most recent IT book titles. Check out our latest titles in the IT Bookworm Blog for more details on these books: Scalability Rules Multicore Application Programming Drupal's Building Blocks Building Applications in the Cloud DTrace To win one of these great...

Is the rain keeping your weekend plans from getting off the ground? Well, IT Knowledge Exchange has a chance for you to take advantage of staying indoors. Ask or answer 10 questions* this weekend, and you will earn 100 knowledge points, good for our current contest! Any combination of...

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This week's free IT book, DTrace, covers dynamic tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD. What can you learn from DTrace? Learn by example, with ample commands and "easy-to-adapt, downloadable D scripts. These concise examples generate answers to real and useful questions, and serve as a...

Designing Cisco Network Service Architecutres (ARCH), Second Edition, is Cisco authorized as a self-paced learning tool for CCDP foundating learning. Includes the latest in network infrastructure, intelligent network services, and converged network solutions. For those preparing for CCDP...

The holidays are approaching and so is your next chance to win an Xbox 360 by simply doing what you do around IT Knowledge Exchange. Between today and December 15th, the three members who accumulate the most knowledge points will win some great prizes: 1st Prize: Xbox 360 with 250GB hard drive &...

This week's free IT book is Phil Simon's Why New Systems Fail: An Insider's Guide to Successful IT Projects. Simon provides the necessary framework to "minimize the chance of system failure before, during, and after beginning IT projects." Win this book for some real-world and specific tips, tools...

This week's free IT book giveaway is Michael Lopp's The Software Developer's Career Handbook: Being Geek. Lopp hasn't written just another career book, he provides his first-hand experiences to advise on how to navigate the job life cycle. Lopp is a Silicon Valley-based engineering manager who's...

This week's free IT book is from Cisco: Network Security Auditing. How can you qualify to get the complete guide to auditing network security, measuring risk and promoting compliance? Simply answer one of the questions in this post and post a link to your answer in the discussion area below. I'll...

In an effort to make Monday mornings happy, we've been giving away a book a week. This week we're giving away The Official Ubuntu Book, with a foreword from the founder of ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth. All you have to do is answer one of five unanswered questions then leave a link to your answer in...

This week's IT book giveaway is Jeffrey S. Beasley's <i>Networking 2nd Edition</i> with software enclosed. All you have to do is answer one of these five unanswered questions then leave a link to your answer in the discussion area below! Answer one of these (or more!): Restore...

We've got Michael Miller's book Cloud Computing: Web-Based Applications That Change the Way You Work and Collaborate Online and we want to give it to you! All you need to do is answer one of these five unanswered questions, then leave a link to your answer in the discussion area below. Answer one...

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